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UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
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CMPSCI 403 |
Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Control |
Fall 2014 |
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Course Announcements
The course is designed so that you can use your personal laptop if
possible. The majority of students will find that to be the most
convenient and the best overall performance on the simulator we will
use. If that doesn't work for you, then the edlab maintains IMACS that can
boot MACOS/Windows/Linux) and PCs running Linux. You'll want Mac OSX
or Linux to run the X window-based sim.
More later, when the accounts are set up.
All students in the class will get an account. Most usernames will
be the first
character of your first name appended by their lastname (truncated to 8
characters). For example, I would be rgrupen (for Rod Grupen).
If this combination is not unique, you will need to get your username from my
class roster. If you registered late, then your account may be late as
well. Your initial passwords will be your 8 digit assigned Student ID
numbers (unless you had an account last semester, then it will be
whatever you set it to last semester).
Each student has a home directory on the grad partition.
Your login will source the course .login
(/courses/cs400/cs403/cs403/.login) and you will also have links to the courses
that you take. Type "cd cs403" to get to /courses/cs400/cs403, this is where
you should do all your cs403 work
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Your directory has group access
only (cs403). All the common course related material goes in
/courses/cs400/cs403/cs403 directory. If you have trouble getting files from
there it probably means that I screwed up the protection again - send me mail
and I'll fix it.
If you have technical problems, send mail to system@cs.umass.edu.
The EdLab
grupen "at" cs "dot" umass "dot" edu